STEM Fair Powerpoint Requirements with Descriptions

STEM Fair PowerPoint Requirements with Descriptions

1.  Title page – The title page must include your STEM project's title, your name, school name, your grade, and the name of your science teacher. The title can be the question in a "catchy" form. If your title is different from your question, make sure you also include your question.

2.  Question (also referred to as the Problem or Purpose) - This is the question that you set out to answer through conducting your experiment.

3.  Background Research – A brief paragraph summarizing the major research paper, which will give your audience a better understanding of the project components.

4.  Hypothesis - This is your educated guess based on your research, which was made before beginning the experiment. Be sure that your hypothesis is written in the “If…then…because…” format. Please do not try to change it to make it “correct”.

5.  Abstract - The Project Abstract should briefly summarize your project. It should include your hypothesis, what materials you used to conduct your experiment, how you conducted your experiment, what your results were and what your conclusions were. Don’t forget: be brief here.

6.  Procedure & Materials - This is the procedure you followed to do your experiment. It should follow the scientific method. The materials are simply a list of ALL of the items that were required to complete the project.

7.  Data – Data can be displayed in tables, charts, graphs, or pictures. These are your results displayed in a way that your audience can understand. It is an "analysis" of what you have done.

8.  Conclusion – The conclusion should contain the interpretation of your results and should state whether your hypothesis (restate it here) was proved or disproved. Also discuss how the experiment satisfied your Question, why you think that it turned out the way that it did, and inferences that can be made from the results of the experiment.

9.  Future Directions – Discuss what you would do differently (if anything), if given the opportunity to redo the experiment. Be sure to include any additional questions that could be investigated or information that could be researched in the future. In addition, any problems that were experienced during the experiment can be discussed here.

10.  Sources - This list should include any documentation that is not your own, such as books or articles that you used to complete the STEM project.